Baby-carriage storm-hood.



B. W. GROVER;

BABY CARRIAGE STORM HOOD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1908.

916,439. Patented Mar. 30, 1909.

UNITED TATES PATENT ()FFICE.

BYRON WIeRovER, OF FREMONT, OHIO, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO BYRON A. FOUCHE, or I FREMONT, 01110.

Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented March 30, 1909.

Application filed March 12,1908. Serial No. 420,615.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BYRON W. GRovER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Fremont in the county of Sandusky and State of hio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baby- Carriage Storm-Hoods, of which the following is a specification.

, The invention relates to an improvement in storm hoods or shields for baby carriages and means "for supporting the hood in various desired positions relative to the carriage.

The main object of the invention is the production of a hood such as described which will be adapted for easy attachment to and disengagement from any baby carriage of ordinary form and construction and which shall be capable of adjustment to accord with that of the carriage in connection with which it is being used and at all times afiord efiective weather protection to the occupant of the carriage.

Another object is to provlde means for.

supporting and retaining the hood in desired adjusted position and adapted, while still attached to the carriage, to be turned out of operative situation and out of the way, or, if preferable, detached from the carriage alto ether.

- Another o ject is to so form and proportion the hood as to adapt it, when out of use, to be compactly folded in small compass and carried with con enience in the carriage as an emer ency accessory.

The invention wil now be described in, the following specification, taken in connection with the accom anying drawings, and then ointed-out in the claims.

In the rawings, Figure 1 is a perspective,

partly broken away, of my improved storm cod and su ports as applied to a carriage of ordinary orm. Fig. 2 is a section, taken on line 22'of Fig. 1, showing the clamp for attachin the hood-sup orting means to the carriage andle bars. I ig. 3 1s a broken rear elevation showing the back portion of the hood in operative relation to the rear of the handle bars, and Fig. 4 is a perspective showing the hood support in one of its angular adjustments with relation to the carriage.

Referring now to the drawings, in which i like parts 'aredenoted by like reference numerals in the different views, 1 denotes a baby carriage of any usual type, including handle bars 2, in connection with which the hood isto be used.

' 3 indicates the front of the hood proper, by preference formed sloping from the top 1, as shown, and 5 a section forming a rear curtain normally de ending between the handle bar uprights, said front 3, top 4 and rear curtain 5 being formed of a single piece of material and connected b weather-tight joinings, as at 6, to sides 7 ormed approximately of the configuration shown, the hood of course being of water-proof material and of sufiicient length to ap ro riately cover the carriage as designed The curtain 5 is made somewhat narrower than top 4 to permit said curtain to freely hang between the handle bar uprights and be overlapped by the ends of sides 7, made of such length as to snugly pass, when in operative position, around said uprights, as shown in Fig. 3. The sides 7 are each provided on its terminate edge with a plurality of buckles or like securing means 13 designed to cooperate with straps 14 to hold said edges in proper relation and retain the overla ped rear curtain 5 closely contin'guous t e rear of the carriage to provide provide for convenient access to the interiorof the hood without raising the latter as a whole.

The front 3 is provided with window 8 formed of any desired transparent material suitable to admit light to the interior of the carriage and afford freeinspection thereof while the hood is in use.

9 and 10 denote the two arms, formed approximately at right angles, of the hood supports, attached to the handle bar uprights and adapted, through the medium of clamps 11, for sliding vertical adjustment thereon, arms 10 passing throu h revoluble connections 12' of clamps 11 an arms 9 extending, when in use, forwardly in approximately horizontal parallel relation to the front edgeof top 4 against which they abut, thus supportin the hood as desired, the connections as escribed permitting any de gree of vertical or circular adjustment of the supports relative to the handle baruprights, and also any desired an lar adjust ment of the arms relative to t e clamp 11,

l advantage being talien of the latter to depress arms 9 in .a plane. parallel with the sides of the carriage and position them out of the way contiguous to said sides.

The invention is shown and described in the preferred details ofconstruction but it is not desired to be limited strictly thereto,

.it being intended to avail myself of any changes which fall within the scope of the invention.

From the above it is obvious that I have produced a storm hood adapted for easy manipulation, which provideseflective protection at all points of the carriage to which it may be applied and which, when weather protection is no longer desired may be instantly removed from its supports and folded in compact form for convenient storage in the carriage body, while the cooperating supports, due to their construction and relative position, permit the hood to be adjusted as desired, the strap and buckle connections of the hood sides allowing rearward adjustment of the curtain to accord with any adjustment of a carriage provided with an adjustable back.

, Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 1. In combination with a baby-carriage having handle -bars, a hood therefor entirely inclosing the carriage body, said hood being divided to form a rear curtain whereby the interior of the hood is readily accessible without raising it as a whole, and means connected to the'carria e handle-bars, and inclosed within the hood or supporting the same.

2: In combination with a baby-carriage having handle bars, a hood therefor entirely inclosing the carriage body, said hood being divided to form an adjustable rear curtain whereby the interior of the hood is readily accessible, and means within the hood and adjustablyconnected to the carriage handle-bars for adjustably supporting the 'hood, said means being adapted to be disposed in turned-down position along having handle-bars, a hood therefor entirely inclosing the carriage-body, said hood comprising a rear curtain formed integral with the hood top and depending between the carriage handlebars and overlapped when in operative position by the hoods sides, and hood supports comprising rightangled arms adjustably connected to the carriage handle-bars and inclosed within the hood, said arms being adapted to be disposed in turned-down positlon along the carriage sides.

- in testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BYRON WJSrRUVER.

Witnesses: I

E. L. BoeUn, LU LU F. BAUMAN. 

